Spokane Memorial Stadium walla_walla_print Abraham Lincoln the Martyr President

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr President 1865 arrives draped in the heavy black crepe of April

when the duelist of Weehawken and would-be emperor of the Southwest had finally outlived the scandal long enough to be engraved into office

Mill Creek Auto Court The Dalles Oregon arrives in tidy cabins lined along the Columbia's wind-carved bluffs

its limbs sectioned and its riser plotted with the precision of a man who saw the longbow less as heirloom than as engineering problem

Spokane Memorial Stadium walla_walla_print Abraham Lincoln the Martyr PresidentSpokane Memorial Stadium arrives in the roar of Saturday crowds packed along the Spokane River, grandstands rising against a backdrop of pine dark hills and the brick smokestacks of the Inland Empire's rail town. Pennants snap above the bleachers, autumn light gilding the field a monument to civic pride and gridiron glory preserved in linen postcards from the golden age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard